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Sony/Philips BS

Posted by Tony Lauck (A) on July 7, 2012 at 14:19:20

In Reply to: Chandos Masters: DSD or PCM? Real confusion! posted by Chris from Lafayette on July 5, 2012 at 16:52:27:

It's all BS created by Sony/Philips marketing. DSD is PCM, just a particular format, 2822.4 kHz at 1 bit. Sony/Phillips did their best to ensure that all the equipment was incompatible as well, in the hopes of milking the industry and consumers for their "invention" which wasn't anything really new in the first place.

It may be that listening to a recording in the "original" format, whatever that means, will sound better. But not always. It depends on many factors. For example, I have a 192/24 Mahler 6 that was originally tracked at 96/24, and these tracks played back and mixed on an analog desk and then captured at multiple digital formats. The recording engineer justified the higher sampling rate because it sounded better. This was a case of two digital generations at 96/24 and 192/24 sounding better than two digital generations at 96/24 and 96/24. Either way the recording sounds good, which is really the only point.

Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar

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Topic - Chandos Masters: DSD or PCM? Real confusion! - Chris from Lafayette 16:52:27 07/05/12 (10)

Sony/Philips BS - Tony Lauck 14:19:20 07/07/12 (3)

Tony - are you referring to the Acousence Mahler 6? - Chris from Lafayette 14:47:00 07/07/12 (2)

RE: Tony - are you referring to the Acousence Mahler 6? - Tony Lauck 15:04:57 07/07/12 (1)

Thanks, Tony! [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 15:11:29 07/07/12 (0)

RE: Chandos Masters: DSD or PCM? Real confusion! - Bruce B 09:40:12 07/06/12 (1)

Ah, yes - the real question! ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 10:47:30 07/06/12 (0)

It's like wine - Thornhill 20:25:47 07/05/12 (1)

RE: It's like wine - ted_b 21:08:02 07/05/12 (0)

RE: Chandos Masters: DSD or PCM? Real confusion! - ted_b 17:37:32 07/05/12 (1)

"If it's DSD, then let me hear it in native DSD. if it's PCM, then let me hear it in native PCM" - Exactly [nt - Chris from Lafayette 18:06:30 07/05/12 (0)

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Sony/Philips BS - Tony Lauck 14:19:20 07/07/12 (3)

Tony - are you referring to the Acousence Mahler 6? - Chris from Lafayette 14:47:00 07/07/12 (2)

RE: Tony - are you referring to the Acousence Mahler 6? - Tony Lauck 15:04:57 07/07/12 (1)

Thanks, Tony! [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 15:11:29 07/07/12 (0)

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